Pierson

At the 2020 census, 26,626 Americans bore the surname Pierson — 1,292nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 11,200.

By the numbers

People: 26,626
Rank: 1,292nd
How common: 1 in 11,200
Per 100,000: 8.9

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Pierson described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 80.5%
Black, not Hispanic 10.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Pierson

Geoff Pierson (born 1949)American actor
Kate Pierson (born 1948)American singer, lyricist, multi-instrumentalist
Frank Pierson (1925–2012)American film director
Nicolaas Pierson (1839–1909)Dutch politician
Julia Pierson (born 1959)American law enforcement official

People named Pierson with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Pierson

Also a first name

Pierson has been given to 3,633 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 2020. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.